Scott Garrett is back to settle an old score | Editorial

Keeping with his ludicrous pattern of nominating arsonists seeking to destroy the institutions they are duty-bound to serve, President Trump will as the Senate to approve Scott Garrett as the leader of the Export-Import Bank.

It’s hard to see how this makes sense, unless Trump is trying to strangle this New Deal-era agency, which Garrett tried to do in 2015 – labeling it “corporate welfare” and “the epitome of crony capitalism” shortly before voters from New Jersey’s Fifth District tired of his hard-right zealotry and sent the seven-term congressman packing.